Beds and cupboards, known as aumbries, were built into walls as were benches and settles. |
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Low down in the corners of the east wall are two hollows known as aumbries which were probably used to contain relics. |
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Her children prosper, folded in the aumbries, cradled in paper, smocked in the complex fabric, the house the wasp has made, her enduring book. |
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